Saturday, 29 June 2013

With only a week and a bit to go, the pressure is rising. What am I going to charge? What are they going to weigh? How much meat is there going to be? Am I going to have the stomach to go through with it?

I weighed them with a nifty technique using a length of string, and the bigger one weighs 49 kilos, which is 108 pounds. The prime weight for a slaughter pig is apparently 250 pounds, so a while to go yet, and only a week and a bit to do it in.

So I've been feeding them up, as you can see with this box of lettuce!

Saturday, 1 June 2013

It just so happened that I had a spare soccer ball in by cupboard so I decided to let the pigs have a run with it. Though it seems that they were more interested in eating it than playing ball. But what can you expect just before meal-time? Anyway, hopefully it gives them some enjoyment when they're not truffling around in the soil.